Lung Cancer Center

Mission of the Lung Cancer Center

The Lung Cancer Center offers the best diagnostic and therapeutic strategy and coordinates the treatment for people affected by lung cancer.

Lung cancer is a complex disease which requires the expertise of several different medical specialisms which are based in different divisions within the hospital. This multidisciplinary approach is essential for the provision of optimum care. The Center gives you access to its range of expertise so it can develop a treatment strategy personalized to you based on the characteristics of the tumor and your general state of health.

It brings together specialists from the divisions of Thoracic Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Pathology, Pneumology, Radiology and Radio-Oncology. An experienced specialist from each medical-surgical discipline concerned will ensure your care from the point of diagnosis to rehabilitation.

Meilleure stratégie diagnostique et thérapeutique - cancer du poumon

The best diagnostic and therapeutic strategy

The Lung Cancer Center brings together specialists from each division in the weekly tumor board meeting. This group examines your clinical situation in order to define a screening strategy, to establish or confirm a diagnosis and to propose the most appropriate treatment.

Your general practitioner is invited to participate.

Accès à des traitements innovants contre le cancer du poumon

Access to innovative treatments

The Lung Cancer Center offers you the opportunity, depending on your situation, to participate in medical research studies. These studies open up access to innovative treatments which are not available on the market. They constitute genuine treatment opportunities when the cancer is refractory to usual treatments.

Collaboration avec le réseau de soins - Cancer du poumon

Collaboration with care networks

On the request of your doctor the Lung Cancer Center may intervene to provide you with a second opinion. In such a case, the expert group at the Center will examine your situation and submit its treatment proposals to your doctor so he/she can discuss them with you.

Quality Label for the Lung Cancer Center

The Lung Cancer Center is one of the centers of excellence at the HUG and offers an optimum and consistent care pathway. It is dedicated to its care, its teaching and its research. In 2019 it was awarded the quality label by the HUG confirming the excellence of the quality of its treatments.

The Lung Cancer Center is one of the specialized centers for cancer treatment. The all form part of the Cancer Center.

How to contact the Lung Cancer Center

Doctors can forward a case file via MyHUG or participate in the tumor boards in person or via video link (FR).

E-mail : centrecancerpoumon@hug.ch

Lung Cancer Center Brochure (FR)

To find out more about the Cancer Center

Conférence prévention et prise en charge du cancer pulmoniare

Conference: Prevention and treatment of lung cancer

Be it tobacco, e-cigarettes and other risk factors, the experts in the Lung Cancer Center also address both the issue of early screening and its methods. Patient treatment at the HUG is also comprehensive with its specific aspects such as access to innovative treatments linked to the university status of the hospital.

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Lung Cancer Center

Mission of the Lung Cancer Center

Quality Label for the Lung Cancer Center

How to contact the Lung Cancer Center